In the past few years a number of Agile people I respect have published top 100 or even top 200 lists. While I, like many others, appreciate the attention they’ve brought, the whole idea seems very anti-agile. Agile promotes a democratic meritocracy. These lists do the opposite, they create “heroes” – people whose ideas are more important others. Instead, I think we should be widely read in the Agile community, often reaching outside our immediate realm. To that end I’m asking for your help creating a list of voices we should hear more from. My goal is find ~100, the limit is more from my time and energy than the lack of more people we could find.

I naively assumed that once this went “live” I would be flooded with names. The first few came in rapidly, and they’ve trickled in on and off ever since. Well, the list has now reached 70 people; I’ve long since had my minimum viable product, but summer and family time intervened.

As a reminder – my simple rules for inclusion are:

Nominees have to have a track record of doing something Agile for at least a year

Not be in the Top 100 of any previous list

The list isn’t sorted – no one is more important than anyone else

I’m most interested in people who write about their experiences, either good or bad

in Edmonton

June 12-13, 2018

in Edmonton

June 14-15, 2018

in Toronto

June 21-22, 2018

Comments

DianeZW

I nominate Michael ‘Doc’ Norton, @docondev, blog: http://www.docondev.com/ and Matt Barcomb, @mattbarcomb, blog: http://blog.risingtideharbor.com/. They both speak regularly at conferences and are passionate about transforming the way software is developed by helping/teaching the people who are developing it.